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2023 Grant County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Grant County, MN went without power for an average of 1.1 hours, a total of 3,559 customer-hours (Minnesota average 3.0 hours). That ranks 49th worst of 82 Minnesota counties and 2661st of 2,977 nationally.
Compared with MN, the US and 2022
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Minnesota customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Grant County, 2023
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | April 4, 2023 23:45 | April 5, 2023 02:15 | 2h 30m | 507 | 899 |
| 2 | July 1, 2023 22:00 | July 1, 2023 23:45 | 1h 45m | 225 | 394 |
| 3 | March 1, 2023 13:45 | March 1, 2023 15:00 | 1h 15m | 223 | 113 |
| 4 | March 1, 2023 17:30 | March 1, 2023 22:15 | 4h 45m | 133 | 632 |
| 5 | July 7, 2023 23:30 | July 8, 2023 00:30 | 1h | 105 | 80 |
| 6 | September 8, 2023 20:15 | September 9, 2023 01:00 | 4h 45m | 104 | 171 |
| 7 | September 15, 2023 21:15 | September 16, 2023 02:45 | 5h 30m | 104 | 392 |
| 8 | October 13, 2023 13:30 | October 13, 2023 17:00 | 3h 30m | 83 | 209 |
| 9 | October 11, 2023 16:00 | October 11, 2023 16:15 | 15m | 82 | 21 |
| 10 | May 30, 2023 05:30 | May 30, 2023 07:15 | 1h 45m | 81 | 96 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 7 reached 100+ customers, 0 reached 1,000+ customers, 0 reached 10,000+ customers.
Utility reliability filed with the EIA
SAIDI (average outage time per customer) and SAIFI (average interruptions per customer) that utilities serving Grant County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2023, or their most recent earlier filing. Utility-wide figures, not county-specific.
| Utility | EIA year | SAIDI | SAIFI | SAIDI excl. major events | SAIFI excl. major events |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Otter Tail Power Co | 2023 | 2.4 hrs | 1.78 | 1.9 hrs | 1.68 |
| Lake Region Electric Cooperative - (MN) | 2023 | 3.5 hrs | 1.84 | 1.7 hrs | 1.02 |
| Runestone Electric Assn | 2023 | 56 min | 0.58 | 56 min | 0.58 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Traverse Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Elbow Lake - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about n/a of Minnesota's customers in 2023; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 3,371 customers (ORNL modeled county customer count), including major storm days. It is comparable across counties but is not the SAIDI a utility files.
- An outage event is a continuous stretch with customers out; counts at 100, 1,000 and 10,000+ use its peak.
- Years loaded: 2015–2025. Grant County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Grant County, MN annual power outage report, 2023, data as of Oct 3, 2026 02:41 UTC, sources: DOE EAGLE-I (https://eagle-i.doe.gov/); EAGLE-I modeled customer counts (MCC) (https://figshare.com/); EIA Form 861 (utility reliability) (https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2023/minnesota/grant-county